The Institute of Medicine suggests women drink about nine cups of water a day, which may leave you wondering whether that’s actually worth all the trips to the bathroom.
1. You’re more likely to have health problems. Higher water intake has been linked to decreased chances of kidney stones, urinary and colon cancer, and heart attacks.
2. No water, NO metabolism revving. A person’s basal metabolic rate (the calories burned while at rest) speeds as the body becomes more positively hydrated and efficient.
3. You’ll have to think harder to complete the same tasks. Scientists found that the brain’s of dehydrated teenagers had shrunk away from their skulls, and that when asked to play a problem solving game, they performed just as well as those who drank enough, but engaged more of their brains to do so. (Drinking water restores the brain to its normal size.)
4. You eat more. Research found that those who drank two eight-ounce glasses of water before each meal consumed 75 to 90 fewer calories while eating. (Over three months, water-drinkers lost an average of five pounds more than the dieters who were parched.)
5. You look more wrinkled. Water plumps skin, fills in fine lines and wrinkles, and enlivens a dull complexion.
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